AP Intern, 22, Found Dead in Mexico

This is the ID photo Armando Montano, 22, posed for early last month as he began his summer internship for Associated Press in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

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A 22-year-old Associated Press intern from Colorado Springs was found dead in the elevator shaft in his apartment building in Mexico City, where he was working this summer. Aspiring journalist Armando Montano, who recently graduated from Grinnell College, began interning for AP early last month and worked on a number of stories, including the shooting of three federal cops at the Mexico City airport, notes AP. Police are investigating his death.

"Armando was a smart, joyful, hardworking, and talented young man," said AP's Latin American bureau chief Marjorie Miller. "He absolutely loved journalism and was soaking up everything he could. In his short time with the AP, he won his way into everyone’s hearts with his hard work, his effervescence, and his love of the profession.” He's survived by his parents. (Read more Armando Montano stories.)

Maybe he wasn't paying attention and walked into what he thought was a waiting elevator, but met an empty shaft instead. Or maybe he was first shot with a Holder-approved gun.

Ultraworld

Jul 2, 2012 1:33 PM CDT

I'd write those stories from Washington DC, not in Mexico. That sucks.

adventuregirl

Jul 2, 2012 7:34 AM CDT

Working on a story about 3 federal cops shot - with political implications, I'm sure Mexico, one of the most corrupt governments in the world - this was a diaster waiting to happen with only a matter of time before it did-RIP comrade